O. Henry Quotes, Art Quotes, Directors Quotes

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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